“Atom” is my code editor of choice, and one of the reasons for that is its support for third-party plugins. Here are my top three, in sixty seconds!

My Top 3 Atom Plugins

The first one is Emmet; very well known and widely supported across a wide range of editors. Emmet allows you to write shorthand code and then expand it to the real thing. It works with HTML, CSS, Sass, and LESS.

The second plugin is “pigments”. This will display colors in your files; really useful when writing CSS. It can also do conversions to other color formats such as rgba and hsl.

Coming in at number three is a plugin called WordPress API and it’s essential for any WordPress developer. It provides fantastic snippets with ready to use code and also auto-completion support for the core functions in the WordPress API.